Chapter 1 Mr. Bai

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I was born in a small place in the northeast - Zhaojiabao. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoI lived there with my grandparents until I was seven years old, and my parents sold fruit in the city for many years to support their family. At that time, basically every household was like this, young and strong people went out to work to make money, the land and trees at home were taken care of by the elderly, the children were free-range, groups of children went to the river to catch fish, climbed trees and picked fruits, and in the evening they went back to their respective homes to eat, and then laughed and played together in the yard after eating, in that era when science and technology were not developed, it seemed that everyone was much simpler than now, a village lived like a family, not to mention that the road was not left behind, and the night was not closed. A few days ago, I happened to hear a song, which sang: Time passes and never returns, the past can only be recalled, recalling the childhood bamboo horse and green plum, and the two little guesses follow each other day and night...... I can't help but sigh that I can never go back to that simple and carefree time......

Speaking of me, I have a place that is different from others, my eyes can see ghosts since I was a child, and it was not until I was a teenager that I realized that not everyone is like me.

When I was ten years old during the summer vacation, my parents sent me back to my hometown to see my grandparents, one day I was going to go to the reservoir at the head of the village to play, when I was about to go, I saw a person sitting under a big willow tree, and when I approached, I found that it was the old bachelor Zhang Cripple in our village, he didn't like to interact with the people in the village on weekdays, and the land at home was sold to others, and he had been relying on the money from the sale of land, and went to the east to buy some vegetables from Mixi's house to live, he always said that the old brother was one, and he couldn't eat much, and then the life in the village was not bad. Look at him pitiful, every time he comes to buy something, he doesn't need money, about his lameness, I heard that he was crippled when he was young and peeked at a woman taking a bath. When I was about to walk up to him, I heard him crying, "I have no children and no daughters in my life, and I was wronged for peeking at a woman taking a bath?!" Why is my life so hard! It's coming, and there's no one to see me off......" he cried as he muttered these words. I saw him crying sadly and walked over and squatted next to him, usually we children also follow the adults to call him Zhang lame, but I remember very clearly that day I called Grandpa Zhang, I said: "Grandpa Zhang, why are you crying, my grandfather told me that men have tears and don't flick!" Zhang lame was stunned for a moment, and stopped crying: "Da Chuan'er! Why are you back? Didn't you go into town with your father and your mother? Ay...... In my life, I have lived in vain, and they all say that I peeked at women taking baths, not at all...... When I was young, the big girls and boys in the village went to bathe in the small river in the east of the village, but basically they all knew that the time was staggered, I came home after taking a bath in the river that day only to find that I had a few steel jumps in my pocket and I went back to look for it, I just looked for things along the road and didn't look up, I didn't wait to find it when I heard a woman shouting to catch hooligans, at that time it was a hard crackdown, everyone was high-spirited, our village has always gotten along very well, everyone is eager to catch a typical out, good criticism, They didn't listen to me at all......" He began to cry again, crying and muttering, "Why am I so miserable! I didn't know which string was wrong and asked him, "Grandpa Zhang, did you find those steel jumps?" He wiped his tears and shook his head. I persuaded him again: "It's okay, I'll go home and get you two!" Zhang lame said: "Baby, you go home quickly, it's not too early, don't let your milk worry." I said as I ran: "Grandpa Zhang, I'll go home and get you a steel hammer, you wait for me!" ”

When I got home, I began to rummage through the cabinets to find my little piggy bank, grabbed a handful of five-cent-and-a-half-cents and ran out. My grandmother shouted from behind, "Oh Okawa! Don't go out when it's time to eat! I shouted, "Milk, I'll be right back!" "I ran to the big willow tree to find Zhang Cripple, but he was not there, and I thought that he might go home and give it to him again tomorrow.

When I got home, my grandmother asked me what I was doing, so I told my grandparents about meeting Zhang Cripple, and my grandmother picked up a broom and dusted the dirt off my body and said, "This child is pure and said that Zhang Cripple died yesterday." "After I asked, I learned that yesterday Mrs. Zhao's family gave birth to a little granddaughter, Mrs. Zhao steamed a pot of steamed buns, thinking that Zhang Cripple was pitiful to send him a few, and when I pushed the door, I found that the person died on the kang, as if he was sick and died...... The people in the village knew that he had no children and no daughters, and they had forgotten about him peeking at a woman taking a bath for so many years, so the family paid some money to give him a thin coffin, and he was hastily buried, and even the tombstone only had the surname and the day he was found dead, there was no big name, and there was no date of birth, because no one knew what his full name was, and no one bothered to check for an irrelevant person, so he left alone, and I also went to join in the fun on the day of Zhang Cripple's funeral, I secretly put a bunch of five-cent-and-one-cent-and-a-cent steel hammers I brought out of the house into his coffin, thinking to myself, Grandpa Zhang, I have found the steel hammers for you...... I walked away and glanced back at the tablet of Zhang Cripple, and I found him sitting in front of his monument, and waved at me when he saw me turn around. At that time, a big stone in my heart finally landed, I knew that he wanted to thank me, I still wanted to do good things in my heart, and I didn't need to thank me, until now I recalled this incident and suddenly found that Zhang Cripple was not entangled in the problem of steel hammer, I began to regret a little, regret that I didn't tell the whole village that Zhang Cripple was not going to peek but to find something, but what can I do?

After that incident, it turned out that I was the only one who had seen Zhang Cripple after death, and it turned out that after death, people were not human, but called ghosts......

My story starts from the day I was born......

Listen to my dad, my mother gave birth to me when it was a big sin, that era was not popular to shave obstetrics, my mother's stomach hurt for a day and a night, at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night my dad and grandpa finally heard my cry, the mother who delivered me cleaned up, with a small quilt that my grandmother had already prepared to wrap me, my grandfather saw that it was a big grandson but was so happy, a pair of originally embarrassed eagle eyes laughed into two seams. Grandma took out another basket of eggs and handed it to the mother who delivered the baby as a thank you gift, and the mother shirked and said, "Old sister, what are we doing after decades of friendship between our sisters and our sisters?" Come in, I'll go back. Grandma still forced a basket of eggs to the eldest lady and said with a smile: "Please be lucky!" Grandpa hugged me and smiled from ear to ear, and said, "I have already thought of a name called Chuan!" Okawa! "That's how my name was decided, Zhao Dachuan!

I was busy from eleven o'clock in the middle of the night to ninety o'clock the next morning. When the whole family was happy, there was a singing sound outside the door, the singing voice was clear and melodious, as if it could be transmitted into people's hearts, "I persuade you to cultivate, but you don't cultivate, but you treat the days as leisurely, time is like an arrow urging people to grow old, and I don't realize that the young man is white." When my father heard the singing, he looked at the gate curiously, and saw a man in a gray linen robe, although his body was covered with patches, standing in the doorway. The man saw my father come out and took two steps forward and said, "Congratulations to Master Wang, you have a happy son!" I came from a foreign country, and I wanted to visit relatives in Baijia Village in front. My dad laughed happily again, guessing that this person might want to come in and beg for saliva and was embarrassed to say it, my dad hurriedly returned the salute: "Sir is polite, today my daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy for me!" I happened to have some coarse tea and light rice in this house, so Mr. came in and ate together. As he spoke, he let the guests into the house.

There are three rooms in my house, a front room is connected to the kitchen, and there is a small kang next to the stove, and in winter, the anti-heat is set up on a kang table to eat, not to mention how warm it is, the other two rooms are a grandparents, I and my parents are one, although the house is not big, but it is very warm, grandpa and my father imagined when my mother was just pregnant, and said that the house will be changed to a two-story building in the future, so that the eldest grandson and daughter-in-law can also live together.

My grandmother and my mother saw that a guest was coming, and the meal was warmed up, so they carried me into the back room, and in those days, when there were guests in the house, women and children were not allowed to eat at the table, and they could only eat after the men had finished eating, which was a courtesy.

The three old men were cross-legged on the kang, and my father poured a cup of white wine for the man in cloth and asked, "Mr. is going to visit relatives in the Baijia Village in front?" The man took a sip of liquor: "Ah, yes, I also have the surname Bai, when I was a child, I followed the master to learn art out of the village, for more than 30 years, I have never been home, the master died of illness a few days ago, I want to go home after dealing with the master's afterlife." He sighed and said, "Hey...... I followed the master at the age of fourteen, and now I am nearly half a hundred years old, I don't know ...... family" He choked up a little. Father looked at him, although this person was thin and ragged, but he could feel that he was talking extraordinary, he was a learned person, but my dad had been growing up in the countryside, no knowledge and no experience, he had been living a day of bowing his head to the loess and looking up at the sky, my dad was also thinking that Mr. Bai had been away from home for so many years, and his parents didn't know it when they were gone, he didn't know what to say to comfort him when he saw this situation, so he had to pat Mr. Bai on the shoulder and refill him with wine. Mr. Bai nodded his thank you and continued: "In those years, the year was not good, and the crops were not good in the field, if I didn't follow the master, I was afraid that I would starve to death......

Unconsciously, it was noon, I didn't know if I was hungry or what's wrong, I suddenly started crying, Ren's mother and grandmother couldn't coax me well, the more I cried, the more serious it became, and I couldn't breathe when I cried. Mr. Bai put down his wine glass and said to my grandfather, "Master Wang, I wonder if I will have the honor to meet Lin'er?" Mr. Bai lifted the small quilt that wrapped me, saw the red birthmark on my chest and asked, "This child was born last night?" The father quickly nodded yes. Mr. Bai took out a black stone from his small sack of burlap, which looked like a drop of water, and there was a small hole at the top, Mr. Bai took out a section of red rope from his cloth bag, dipped his fingers in some white wine, twisted the red rope, the red rope passed through the small hole, handed it to his father and said: "I have a relationship with this child, this is a meeting gift, but this can keep this child safe." My father looked at it and brought it to me, but I didn't cry when I brought it, and my father hurriedly thanked Mr. Bai. Mr. Bai waved his hand and said: "You're welcome, this child was born when he was born on the 14th of July, and there is a birthmark on his chest, it's good to wear this, this is a baby, it's not easy to get......" After speaking, he stood up and said, "It's not too early, so I won't bother much" As he spoke, he walked out the door, and when he walked to the gate, he turned back and said: "Remember that this baby must not be stained with blood!" ”

Since then, I have carried this stone with me, but who knew that this relationship between my family and Mr. Bai back then would have such a great impact on my life in the future......

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